Bloomberg: EU demands for citizens ‘ridiculously high,’ UK’s Davis says

30 May 2017

Brexit Secretary David Davis said European Union demands to protect its citizens’ rights in the UK are "ridiculously high" and will be the first subject of negotiations to exit the bloc after next month’s election.

European officials “are playing very hardball tactics and someone will have to know how to deal with them,” Davis told LBC Radio on Tuesday. "The demands they are putting up are ridiculously high on EU citizens." [...]

"We are going to give the European citizens here generous rights," Davis said. "We don’t intend to be unnecessarily fierce about this," he said. “We will deal with it at the very first negotiations."

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